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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what is the moral of the story here?
We have immoral men who do not live with the mother of their offspring, or are the mothers bad 
Now someone even suggested women should breed for Charity because every adoptee gets guaranteed 2 parent home that will never experience divorce, parental unemployment, disability or end up on welfare[/quote]

The first step is for society to universally acknowledge the evidence that there are some circumstances that lead to more favorable outcomes statistically. (This doesn’t mean you don’t personally know of exceptions to the ideal. There are, of course, evil people who do evil things in two-parent families and there are exceptionally-successful good people in single parent families…that’s not the point)
The point is that striving to create two-parent families is the best outcome on average for most circumstances and results in positive outcomes for the financial, academic, and socio-emotional well being of the child.
Acceptance and support for families who do not operate in this model for whatever reason is also important for society. But it does society a disservice when we pretend all outcomes for any circumstance are equally desired. It’s okay to have a standard and ideal outcome, figure out the most likely way to achieve that, and promote that as a value.[/quote]

The real first step would be unbiased data, not some clickbait op-ed from an attention-seeker. The policy that you are promoting has been the standard in the US for years, and it has created our current hellscape - it's time to stop ostracizing entire families. [/quote]

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